http://www.rptactical.com/product-detail/b5-systems-enhanced-sopmod-buttstock/791
http://soldiersystems.net/2011/10/03/b5-systems-enhanced-sopmod-stock/
Pretty decent price, considering LMT charges 200 somalians.
Colt should be putting these on their rifles.
These are great for airsoft guns, you can even use them on real guns if you feel like sanding down your buffer tube or the inside of the fake sopmod. If you don’t mind having them stuck in one place than no need to even do the sanding. The latch will also require modification in many cases.
These stocks were going for IIrc $68 a piece so apparently they just hiked up the price.
LMT’s website has info and pics to help folks who actually want the real deal SOPMODs and to ensure they didn’t just buy an airsoft stock.
I believe B5 has the current military contract.
When you buy rejected military seconds, you sort of get what you get.
So KAC and LMT lost the contract to whoever the heck B5 is.
See this is where college grads should stick to college threads and not military procurement related threads.
There are lots of companies with military contracts, even for stuff we know of as one brand on the commercial market, who make stuff for the military. The gov is great at putting things in contracts that allows them to get stuff now, and when one company cannot produce enough stuff other companies are allowed to fill in.
There are companies you NEVER EVER heard of making things like rail mount leaf sights, batteries, filters, and all manner of military hardware.
Does that mean I’d buy a “second” from B5? Not really but they are not airsoft parts from China, either.
Just to give an example I have a pair a ACU’s that were made by woolrich, and I bet no one would be any the wiser or ever think Woolrich would be making military issue clothing. Along the same like a favorite libtard hippy brand Patagonia made a large run of special issue clothing for the military.
When one company cannot meet demand usually other companies are allowed to make the product to meet the demand. Just because part XYZ was made by ABC for the commercial market does not mean ABC is the sole source military supplier. And I do believe the SOPMOD stock design is a Crane design in the first place.
Did you read the linked article? Also might want to check out the comments.
So is this legit?
yes, it’s legit. All those B5 stocks that sold cheaply were factory seconds. They needed to be sanded down in some places to fit. B5 has the .mil contract (I don’t know if it’s 100% of the contract or just a piece). There’s another company making the KAC rail covers too. You couldn’t tell the difference if it didn’t say P&S instead of KAC. These aren’t factory seconds. These are supposed to be good to go.
This is 100% incorrect. The FIRST generation of these stocks that were UNDER CONTRACT TO THE USA were incorrectly sized for a mil-spec RE. That wasn’t the companies fault. The prints that were provided to them BY THE GOVT were incorrect.
The 2nd GEN of these stocks are 100% correct and true and have some rather large contracts with the Govt.
These stocks were going for IIrc $68 a piece so apparently they just hiked up the price.
The stocks that were dumped on the market a few years ago, went through DRMO and somebody bought them all and sold them to the public. The reason they were dumped was because of the above.
LMT’s website has info and pics to help folks who actually want the real deal SOPMODs and to ensure they didn’t just buy an airsoft stock.
Just so we set the record straight, no on the CURRENT GEN stocks being fake or not correct. The company that is making these HAS a USA contract.
C4
Yes (from what I understand). It is also my understanding that other .Mil groups are interested in these as well. So we will see more contracts with others I think.
C4
Rail covers AND RAS Rails (I have some).
C4
roger, I forgot about those.
For the record, we have some of these stocks coming for T&E. We will also be a distr. for them and will offer some cool package deals.
I have been running a KAC/LMT SOPMOD since day one and still consider it the best or one of the best stocks ever designed. So I will give you guys my input on its quality compared to the KAC/LMT version.
C4
I thought that ALL weapons parts had to be demil’d (scraped) before they could be sold (as scrap). Am I mistaken or has something changed.
Not that I am aware of.
C4
10-4…your previous replies in this thread make much more since after reading this reply.
If anybody can make and sell SOPMOD stocks in the civilian market I wonder why nobody else has done it before. See the reply from Car- as I question that as well.
I’ll stick with the known quantity that hasn’t produced a ton of them to the wrong specs.
I don’t think that “anyone” can produce and sell these to the “public.”
Remember that the “incorrect spec” was not the companies fault. It was actually the Govt’s fault.
If you are fine with paying double for the same thing, then drive on brother.
C4
Grant, look forward to your testing of them. I might be in the market for a couple.
Thanks!!
ARKAR
Be interested in your review.
The Multi-cam Pattern looks 90 degrees off to me.